Misión AIH en Quito, Ecuador (junio 2016)
Background: the
People’s Alternative Urban Forum in Medellin
For its participation in the process of mobilizing resistance to Habitat III, the International Alliance of Inhabitants drew on the experience of 2014 when all the local and national organizations in Colombia worked together to create the People’s Alternative Urban Forum (PAUF), as part of the World Urban Forum (WUF) organized by the UN in Medellin.

Cierre del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (20 octubre 2016)
1. A quick tour of cities shows us that today there are serious shared problems that affect the majority of the population. Examples of some of these problems are: the current neoliberal urbanisation model, which is market driven and does not take into account needs and quality of life, nor the minimum planning requirements; the development of large-scale infrastructure investments by states, with a view to creating favourable conditions for major private investment, which causes the eradication of populations, the division of territories and the fragmentation of the city; the unlimited growth of the real estate market, which allocates the best land to high-earning sectors of society, privatises public spaces and builds houses that remain empty.

Ritaual de clausura del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (20 Octubre 2016)
Through Resolution 66/207 on December 22, 2011, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided to convene the Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, to be held in Quito, Ecuador from October 17 to 20, 2016, with the aim of examining the global urban situation and approving a New Urban Agenda.

Marcha de inauguración del Foro Social de Resistencia Popular a Habitat III, QUITO, ECUADOR (17 octubre 2016)
PREAMBLE
The new millennium dawned with half of the world’s population living in cities, and experts forecast that by 2050 the world’s urbanization rate will reach 65%. Cities are potentially territories with vast economic, environmental, political and cultural wealth and diversity. The urban way of life influences the way in which we link with our fellow human beings and with the territory.